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Created during the early Renaissance, Madonna and child by Rogier Van Der Weyden did not appeal to me. Unlike the other Madonna and child paintings, this portrayal lacked the visual excitement, and dramatic action. There was nothing in Rogiers work to make the painting seem to burst out of the frame. In my mind, the painting did not give a composition of unity, continuity, flow and or rhythm. The painting was formed by oil, which has tendency to darken and yellow with age.The painting called, "Madonna and child with Saint Jerome" by Matteo Giovanni, intrigued me the most. Out of the other depictions of the Madonna and child in the gallery, Giovanni's portrayal of Madonna and child was unique in a sense that he brou
Matteo Giovanni methodically put layers of color, creating a smooth almost luminous surface. I had grasped what painting could be. His style was elegant, linear, and decorative, revealing resemblance with Pollaiuolo. Giovanni as one might call a developer of the early renaissance, found reflections with elegance of the outlines and of the melancholy charm of figures by Duccio, Ugolino, Simone Martini and other Trecento painters in Matteo's works much more than his local colleagues. Matteo achieved an illusion of depth, directional light, and mass, rich textures through his color scheme. His major works include a large Assumption of the Virgin in the National Gallery, London. Giovanni portrayed his Christian subjects not as spiritual, but more with human characteristics. In Matteo's painting, he strengthens the content of the structures by using the child as symbolic perspective. Even though tempera is slightly "matte" (not shiny), it is luminous achieving sharp lines and precise details, which does not darken with age. The posture and gestures of modesty of the characters show a harmonious resolution of the ideals of classical Greece and Rome. His naturalistic yet poetic portrayal brought a worldly dimension to religious subject matter. Matteo Di Giovanni was a student in Sienese School of art. The angels created a strong emotion of supernatural vision. As Monet once said, "I looked on with some apprehension, then more attentively, and then suddenly it was as if a veil was torn from my eyes; I had understood.
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